On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 4:35 AM, Matthew Brett <matthew.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 3:35 AM, Eric Wieser > <wieser.eric+nu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Did recarrays change? I didn’t see anything in the release notes. > > > > Not directly, but structured arrays did, for which recarrays are really > just > > a thin and somewhat buggy wrapper. > > Oh dear oh dear - for some reason I had completely missed these > changes, and the justification for them. > See https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/6053. It actually goes back a couple of years. > > They do exactly the kind of thing that Konrad Hinsen was complaining > about before, with justification, which is to change the behavior of > previous code, without an intervening (long) period of raising an > error. In this case, the benefits of these changes seem small, > compared to the inevitable breakage and silently changed results they > will cause. > > Is there any chance of reversing them? > Maybe, we'll see how things go. Chuck
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